Legal Counsel Banking and Finance
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Description
You will lead legal work for debt financings, lender relationships, finance documentation, and post-closing obligations. You will draft and negotiate banking, commercial, and technology agreements; coordinate external counsel; advise on governance, employment, procurement, data protection, and intellectual property matters; and develop reusable legal templates and guidance.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate banking and finance documentation
- Support debt financings from term sheet through closing
- Advise on security packages and asset-backed structures
- Manage covenant compliance, reporting, waivers, amendments, and utilisation mechanics
- Coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions
- Advise on lender due diligence and prepare closing deliverables
- Support treasury and finance on hedging, accounts, and cash management
- Support corporate and M&A matters connected to financing
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts
- Answer day-to-day legal queries
- Support corporate governance and entity housekeeping
- Advise on employment, procurement, vendor, data-protection, and intellectual-property matters
- Develop legal templates, playbooks, and guidance
Requirements
- Law degree or equivalent
- 2–5 years of post-qualification banking and finance experience
- Finance documentation
- Secured lending
- Legal advice
- English
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Multi-jurisdictional legal work
Benefits
- Cash compensation
- Equity compensation
- Fringe benefits
